Shielding Wall Street from the Ravages of Bigotry
Perhaps Phil Gramm could run a telethon to support ex-executives shamed for their fat retirement packages. Don’t laugh, for Phil really feels the pain of the rich.
The next subprime loan crisis
Wall Street is siphoning billions of investment dollars into high-risk, subprime auto loans.
Trump’s end
Good riddance.
Our outrageous CEO-worker pay gap: Unfair and unwise
Why support for capping CEO pay will only keep growing.
The Intellectuals We Abandon
"One of the many cruelties of corporate capitalism is that it has abandoned the poor and, among them, the gifted intellectuals I teach."
State Terrorism in Ogaden, Ethiopia
There is indeed terrorism raging throughout large parts of the Ogaden and elsewhere in the country; it is State Terrorism perpetrated by a brutal regime that is guilty of widespread criminality, much of which constitutes crimes against humanity.
Earth Day: Conflict over the future of the planet
The environmental crisis and the mishandling of climate change are issues that are going to make the 2020s a decade of transformational change.
Cameron Is Cornered
The Panama Papers exposed how the British prime minister benefited from his father’s stealth wealth.
What happens when bad money supports good foreign policy?
The anti-war movement needs money, and the Koch brothers have it. But it comes with strings attached.
Americans have been bilked out of billions during the pandemic from cynical profiteers
Unless America addresses runaway income inequality and begins protecting the most vulnerable in society, the next pandemic will hit the nation even harder.